Word: exaction
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...this production of "Menaechmi" every erudite effort has been turned towards an exact classical setting, even to the conventional musical instruments of the times. Although the action is easy to follow, the audience will be given translations prepared by two Club members. Out of the dust of many years, the illimitable swaggerer and beggar, man of the world and man in the street will emerge and command a modern interpretation. It is rumored that the ghost of old Plautus himself, lured from his pleasant Roman Hell by the familiar setting, will chuckle in the wings to frighten the censor...
Philanthropy, no longer merely an expansion of good Samaritanism, now resembles an exact science. The famed Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations apply the precision of the laboratory to the study of human welfare and what money can do to promote...
Like navigation, electrodynamics, foil fencing is an exact science. Its only drawback is the necessity for sharp-eyed judges crouching on the sidelines to shout "touche" every time a fencer's sword point touches the plastron of his adversary...
Strange sounds filled Manhattan's Carnegie Hall one afternoon last week. The occasion was a recital by Pianist Hans Earth, to show the development of the pianoforte of the past, present, future. It began with the 1750 period and the harpsichord; the instrument played was an exact model of Handel's and Beethoven's, with plectrums made of real crows' quills and leather. Then came a group for the modern grand piano which differs from the harpsichord in that it has padded hammers which produce tones by striking (rather than plucking at) tightly stretched metal strings...
...effect of the story is gigantically satiric. But Author Dos Passes has let his book speak for itself: it is not in the material but in his arrangement of it that the artist shows his hand. Author Dos Passes thinks of himself as an historian, tries to give an exact picture of an epoch...